Notice to our Customers: Beware of Scammers!

Here at Restomods, we pride ourselves on running a clean, transparent sweepstakes. In recent times these have been drawing the attention of scammers who are trying to swindle our customers. Here are some helpful tips on how to identify a scam and how to report it.

WE ONLY CONTACT OUR WINNERS BY PHONE

• We call from an (858) area code phone number
• Our founder and CEO Chris makes the call during a live broadcast on our YouTube channel.
• You can watch past live phone calls here.

SCAMMERS MAY CONTACT YOU…

• via direct message on social media. Learn more.
• via email. Learn more.
• by phone. Learn more.

WE NEVER ASK OUR WINNERS FOR MONEY TO ACCEPT THE PRIZE

• Scammers will impersonate us and contact you that you’ve won, but must pay money to accept the prize. They may ask you for:
  • Your bank account info
  • Your credit card info
  • The last 4 digits of your social security number

HOW TO IDENTIFY A SCAMMER

Social Media

• On social media, @restomods is our only Instagram, Twitter and Tik Tok accounts, and @RestoModsMedia is our only Facebook page
• We’re verified on Instagram now, which means we have the blue checkmark. Any account that looks like us that doesn’t have a blue checkmark is a scammer
• Imposters will make accounts that look like ours with similar usernames, but they are not us. Also, at this time we have about 200K followers. Scam accounts will have just a few hundred.
• Imposters will attempt to scam you by sending direct messages that you’ve won and must pay hundreds of dollars to accept the prize. WE DON’T DO THIS.

Email

• We almost never contact our winners via email, and will do so only in extreme cases where we’re unable to make contact with a winner by phone
• Scammers will create email addresses that look like us, like “[email protected]” but we only ever send emails from the domain restomods.com. For example, [email protected]. We will never send emails from regular email service provider domains.
• Just like social media scams, these phonies will ask you to pay money to accept the prize.

Phone

• As stated above, we only contact our winners by phone with an 858 area code phone number
• If you’ve received a call from an 858 number claiming to be RestoMods but it’s not Chris on the line, it’s not us

HOW TO REPORT THESE SCAMS

Always report fake social media accounts via the platform’s reporting tools. Here’s some resources for each:

Reporting for Instagram

Reporting for Facebook

Reporting for Twitter

Reporting for Tik Tok

Report email and phone phishing scams to our government using these helpful resources.

CONTACT US

Alert us about potential scams or if you have questions about imposters and scams.

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (833) 229-0657